Trapshooting tradition was upheld last week at Vandalia, Ohio. In 45 years there have been no repeat winners of the national amateur championship, no women victors. The Grand American Handicap* was captured by Leslie Jepsen, a sparse-haired, thin, nervous electrician from Dwight, Ill. He toed the mark at 19 yards with a pump gun borrowed from a neighbor at home (he broke his own two years ago) and hit 97 clay birds out of 100. His prize was $3,000.
Among the 853 Vandalia marksmen were many in uniform. Captain Joe Hiestand of Fort Myers, Fla., became the first four-time winner of...
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